Quotes About Philosopher Kings

#1. Your friend Plato holds that commonwealths will only be happy when either philosophers rule or rulers philosophize: how remote happiness must appear when philosophers won't even deign to share their thoughts with kings.

Thomas More

#2. Don't let anyone tell you that you can't do something. Make your own victories. Make your own mistakes.

Joan Jett

#3. Intelligence may indeed be a benign influence creating isolated groups of philosopher-kings far apart in the heavens ... On the other hand, intelligence may be a cancer of purposeless technological exploitation, sweeping across a galaxy as irresistibly as it has swept across our own planet.

Freeman Dyson

#4. Well, the capacity of French intellectuals to understand a Texan way of thinking is finite.

Henry A. Kissinger

#5. Hercule Poirot addressed himself to the task of keeping his moustaches out of the soup.

Agatha Christie

#6. Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.

Pankaj Mishra

#7. I feel very blessed to have had the opportunities that have already come. I want to pursue it as long as I can find characters that resonate with me and projects that resonate with me. I feel very comfortable in that world.

Sharlto Copley

#8. I've always argued that it is just as desirable, just as possible, to have philosopher plumbers as philosopher kings.

Edith Green

#9. i will stay alive.

Dave Pelzer

#10. The cynic who twitted Aristippus by observing that the philosopher who could dine on herbs might despise the company of a king, was well replied to by Aristippus, when he remarked that the philosopher who could enjoy the company or a king might also despise a dinner of herbs.

Charles Caleb Colton

#11. He thinks like a philosopher, but governs like a king.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#12. Nobody does anything better than me in baseball (said before the 1971 World Series).

Roberto Clemente

#13. A State would be happy where philosophers were kings, or kings philosophers.

Plato